Table-leg fastening.



PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906. ELL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TABLE-LEG FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed July 14, 1905. Serial No. 269,657.

To aZZ 1072,0712 it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH CORNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Earlville, in the county of Madison and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Table-Leg Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to table-leg fastenings, and has for its object to provide for guiding the leg to the fastening element upon the under side of the table, thereby to facilitate the assembling of the table-leg and the table-top.

In tables having detachable legs the table element of the fastening means is concealed when the leg is placed in position for engagement therewith, which renders it awkward and difficult to assemble the leg with the table-top. In view of this objection it is the purpose of the present invention to provide the table element of the fastening means with a guide arranged for convenient engagement by the fastening element of the leg,

so as to direct said element to the fastening element of the table in a very simple and efficient manner without in any manner impairing the effectiveness of the fastening.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view taken through a table-top and a table-leg connected by means of the present leg-fastening device. Fig. 2 is a similar view taken at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view with the leg in section and partly broken away to show the manner of assembling the leg and table elements. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of the table element of the leg-fastening means.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawings.

In explanation of the present invention a portion 1 of a table top has been shown in the accompanying drawings, the under side of said table-top being provided with a socket or recess 2 for the reception of the upper end of the fastening element of the leg, as will be hereinafter explained. To the under side of the tabletop there is secured the table element of the fastening, consisting of a block or body 3, held in place by suitable fastenings 4 and provided with a slot or bifurcation 5, intersecting one edge of the block or body and extending to the center thereof. The back of this slot is laterally enlarged at opposite sides of the slot, so as to form a c annel 6 and to provide a flanged entranceopening for the slot. The member 3 is secured to the table-top, so as to have the inner end portion of the slot 5 register with the socket or recess 2 in the under side of the table-top.

The table-leg 7 is provided with a fastening element consisting of a pin 8, having one end portion 9 pointed and provided with a woodscrew which is set centrally in the top of the leg, while the upper projecting end portion of the pin is threaded, as shown at 10, and upon this threaded portion a nut 11 is fitted.

As best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, it will be noted that the member 3 is provided with a shoulder 12, projecting longitudinally beyond and in parallelism with one side of the slot 5, the adjacent portion of the groove or Ehannel 6 being extended through this shoul- In assembling the leg and the table-top the nut 11 being upon the outer end portion of the pin 8 the upper end of the pin is placed against the under side of the table-top and moved across the slotted edge of the member 3 until the nut engages and is stopped by the shoulder 12, the nut of course entering the channel 6, whereby the leg is stopped with the pin in alinement with the slot 5, and all that is now necessary to do is to move the leg laterally in engagement with the uide-shoulder 12 to enter the pin into the s 0t 5 until it is stopped by the rear end thereof, whereupon the leg is rotated to screw the pin through the nut 11, and thereby draw the leg into snug engagement with the under side of the block or body 3.

It will here be noted that the socket 2 in the under side of the table-top is intended to receive the top of the pin 8 when the leg is set up tight against the block 3.

For the purpose of facilitating the turning of the leg to tighten and also to loosen the same the leg is provided in one side with a seat or socket 13 for the reception of a bar 14, designed to be used as a crank-handle for rotating the leg, whereby a better purchase may be had to rotate the leg than can be obtaingd by directly grasping the leg with the han s.

It will here be explained that it is not designed to have the bar 14 remain permanently in the leg, as it is intended for use merely when tightening and loosening the leg, and therefore does not normally remain in the socket.

Having thus described is claimed is 1. The combination with a table-top having asocket in the under side thereof, of a block secured to the under side of the table the invention, what across the socket and provided with a slot inof the slot, the upper end of the pin being adapted to enter the socket in the under side of the table-top when the leg is screwed up tight against the block.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an element of a table-leg fastening consisting of a block provided with a slot intersecting one edge thereof and having its back laterally enlarged at opposite sides, that end of the block which is intersected by the slot having a shoulder projecting in front of the slot in substantial parallelism with one of the longitudinal walls thereof and intersected by the adj acent lateral enlargement of the slot.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH CORNELL.

Witnesses:

BERTHA L. SoUTHwoRTH, LEE STEBBINs, Jr. 

